Commemorating the 10th Anniversary of the single volume ‘blue cover’ edition (also available), Joshua Free’s classic ARCANUM materials are now more accessible than ever — available in installments as a two volume ‘red cover’ edition set!

ARCANUM by Joshua Free is a unique literary contribution toward harmonic unification of knowledge receiving many names through the ages: magickal, occult, pseudo-scientific and now, even quantum. The rise of technology and the recent “information age” has provided a wellspring of metaphysical lore, but it is not mutually synchronous with other knowledge or even other New Age systems, often due to vocabulary use.

“New Agers” separate their sects and factions in the same manner as the scientists and the religious officials, and we (as a society) have not been progressing towards global unity. All of our developments and paradigms of truth continue to grow and prove themselves only when isolated within the system in which they were designed. This all changes when taking the “wide-angle” approach to the whole picture — the entire systematic gestalt of the metaphysical universe explored in ARCANUM.

ARCANUM : The Great Magickal Arcanum by Joshua Free

This innovative presentation requires that YOU have immediate access to supplemental information on any given facet of related knowledge. This is indicated in the text by the appearance of “links” or bold-faced type that prompts YOU to explore other specific parts of the book for additional clarification. This design allowed the author the ability to cover more topics in a tighter space without having to be unnecessarily repetitive in reprinting the more common aspects. ARCANUM is not to be mistaken as simply another “A-to-Z Encyclopedia of Magick” or a superficial discourse concerning “where science and magick meet.” In fact, this text was not written for the true beginner in mind and its scope surpasses practical magick alone.

ARCANUM has no specific starting point, allowing it to be integrated into any personal background or developmental stage. With sufficient time, study and practice, the seeker works through the entire body of knowledge, beginning first with the facets of individual fancy and inclination, and then continuing on with the remainder of the entangled material, which you will find to be coherently interconnected, not simply clumped together to make a massive series. By presenting this primer of a new standard model of the mysteries, any individual, couple or study group can find the ease of using this global” system in spite of prior personal religious, spiritual, philosophical, scientific and academic background or accomplishments!

As the underground modern inception of “Mardukite” mysteries prepares to celebrate its 10th Anniversary of activity – during the second ever “global synchronized Marduk gate opening meditation” for Beltane 2018 – the subject of astral doorways, star gates, and other “spiritual” or “metaphysical” inter-dimensional portals is becoming a hot topic among not only the “Mardukite” scene, but also by other “New Age,” “alternative science” and “ancient aliens theorists.”

“Arcanum” by Joshua Free, 10th Anniversary Edition

Drawing from the pages of the newly released 10th Anniversary edition of the very first Mardukite publication – “ARCANUM: THE GREAT MAGICAL ARCANUM”by Joshua Free –

…a “threshold” or “portal” is quite simply a “gateway.” Modern practitioners believe that via the Universal Akasha (or superstrings) all things are connected. Different circumstances and natural conditions affect this “bridge” between worlds. In ritual meditations and ceremonial magick, the Nemeton (sacred space) serves as a temporary energetic threshold by which one is able to evoke (call forth) external powers that exist in the “invisible” (or what is “outside” of our normal perception of time-space).

In ritual meditations and ceremonial experiments, a “visible” counterpart or tool often represents “invisible” forces. For example, elemental tablets, elemental weapons and the like, are attractants, meaning catalysts for the specific elements being invited and made manifest through magickal work. Another example: regularly casting a circle or using the Watchtower Ceremony in a particular locale can change the vibrations (resonance impressions) of that space.

Meditating and studying from the Mardukite NECRONOMICON ANUNNAKI BIBLE (edited by Joshua Free) and the astral connections made via the Mardukite GATES OF THE NECRONOMICON (Year-2 anthology, also edited by Joshua Free) are believed to open personal channels and establish resonance specific to the planetary or otherwise “Olympian” deities realized in their rawest form as the Anunnaki pantheon, described best by the ancient Sumerians, Babylonians, Akkadians, Chaldeans, Assyrians, and the like – they are encountered elsewhere in geography and history by other cultures and in names from other languages.

A practical exploration of rituals and rites from these traditions is also found in Joshua Free’s Mardukite NECRONOMICON GRIMOIRE (Year 3 anthology).

Since time and space are relative in the Infinite Universe, so are the thresholds. Energetic events in other dimensions (astral, Otherworld, etc.) that are connected to ours will produce effects in our world.

Cosmic events can have repercussions on the energies that manifest by the elements through weather and natural terrain. Certain times and places simply “feel” more magickal than others, and while there are energetic causes behind this, they tend to go unrecognized. Historically, mystics observed different effects under varying natural conditions and this lore comes to use in the New Age as magickal timing (using the Moon, Sun and planetary influences).

Grimoires and archaic ritual texts frequently specify the timing of the operation or events that must coincide with it (e.g. an equinox or solstice). The ritual then continues with the wizard doing something in the visible realm to affect the energetic vibrations via the invisible realm. In essence, the wizard does something “here” to affect something “there,” appearing as though remotely manipulated like a screen and keyboard, but in truth “here” and “there” are entangled as one.

SO…WHAT ABOUT THE TRADITIONAL “GATES OF THE NECRONOMICON”???

According to standard Babylonian/Mesopotamian tradition and as famously described in the Simonian Necronomicon, there are seven “planetary” thresholds encountered when the shaman or wizard is “rising on the planes” of the Ladder of Lights, or “Stairway to Heaven” – a form of “initiation via the Astral Plane.” This is comparable to the “Rising on the Planes” (or aethyrs) of Enochian Magick. It is also understood, much as displayed in other kabbalistic models of metaphysical cosmology, that access to a very real Gate or Door to the “Other” is concealed within the system. However it may be accessed directly, one things is for sure: This is the very “magic” for which BABYLON was named for!

As the modern Mardukite movement gears up for its tenth active year, the long-term plans for Phase-10 are being divulged for the first time from the Mardukite Office and Council of Nabu… and all of them seem to involve the use of meditation, personal metaphysics and what many have called “magic” — the same practices which were at first held exclusively for remote communication with interdimensional or otherwise “alien” intelligences — will be explored and executed by the Mardukite Chamberlains in global efforts to force open portals, doorways and gateways for the New Age, bringing specific energies and frequencies into this realm that have previously been denied. Such almost seems like something from the pages of science fiction alone, but this is not the case. And in preparation for such undertakings for the following years, we turn our attention to the lore from the past where elements of such aspects may be best observed and even exploited.

“Arcanum” by Joshua Free, 10th Anniversary Edition

…One example we might turn to regards the subject of KHORONZON, here explained in this Mardukite NecroGate blog post as excerpted from the new 10th Anniversary edition of ARCANUM : THE GREAT MAGICAL ARCANUM by Joshua Free. While the archives and publishing array of the Mardukites has grown considerably in the past decade, it was the ARCANUM work that first attracted many early subscribers of the Mardukite underground.

KHORONZON… A powerful malignant force interpreted from the Enochian-Kabbalah system. Sometimes spelled “Choronzon” or “Coronzon,” the name refers to the “Fallen One,” or Apocalyptical Dragon, known in Enochian language as “telec vovim” or “Death Dragon.” Most scholars interpret this primordial force as “the Devil” or “Satan,” while Gnostics equate it with the Ialdabaoth energetic current. In the Necronomicon and ancient Sumerian-Babylonian tradition, Khoronzon is specifically defined as KUR, or Tiamat, the “first form” or “archetypal dragon” that leads the hordes of Ancient Ones. All traditions point to a force that is currently being kept beyond or outside of our time-space by the Gate to the Outside.

Leave it to Aleister Crowley to break through the gates of the Universe. Instead of using the Triangle of Solomon for Goetic evocation, a method used widely by ceremonialists for conjuring to physical appearance (typically within a mirror), Crowley traced the Triangle of Solomon in the sands of the Algerian desert in 1909, formed the space as a nemeton, stepped within the confines and conjured the spirit of Khoronzon into himself. Previously, Crowley had encountered the entity when he was exploring the developmental system of Aethyrs (which he skryed from the thirtieth to the first) working with one or two of the dimensions a day. At one point, Crowley finds himself stuck on a rung of the Ladder of Light. To go further would mean to break the seal to the Gate to the Outside from within his own mind, sharing an astral existence with the forces of Khoronzon. Of course, Crowley went ahead and did this anyway, and it changed him for the remainder of his life.

It is possible that Aleister Crowley did more than simply open the Gate to the Outside from within his own mind. Many spiritualists believe that when he did so, he unleashed many malignant forces into 20th Century civilization. This may have been a predetermined event. The Enochian System was “discovered” by John Dee and Edward Kelley, but they never successfully employed the system themselves, and were actually warned not to (by an angel named “Ave”). Then, 500 years later, Crowley appears, claiming to be the spirit of Kelley in a reincarnated form, and he effectively uses all of the Enochian Keys to perform his famous ritual working, his interpretation of the Great Work.

“Arcanum” by Joshua Free, 10th Anniversary Edition

Astral lore within the high magickal tradition sometimes makes references to places or spaces of “not” and “void” that exist between other aethyrs and dimensions of existence. The abyss represents the unknown, the most frightening and challenging state of mastery capable prior to the finality of Ascension. Sometimes the Dweller on the Threshold is not malignant, merely a guardian of sorts. In the case of Khoronzon, the entity exists between the aethyrs beyond all reasonable sensory perception. Legends suggest that there are still worshipers of the Ancient Ones, ever seeking to allow these forces to manifest in the Mid-Branch planes of human existence. But according to the apocryphal texts and prophecies, this final battle of “Sky Dragons” is inevitable.

Protection from the “Death-Dragon” requires a significant feat of magickal ability, perhaps the entirety of the Great Magickal Arcanum. The individual must exist within an established shell or strengthened Merkaba, with the personal energetic system (aura and chakras) strengthened and balanced from within a body of light. The belief is that forces kept behind the Gate to the Outside will represent a catastrophic event for natural existence. Some lore suggests the unnatural undoing of creation, the “un-creation,” a power allegedly held in the Tetragrammaton, the “Word.” The best advice for the seeker is to embrace the Clear Light within and become as a beacon of Truth to dispel the darkness…

Among many facts borrowed from the Cthulhu Mythos and adopted for the Simon Necronomicon, the idea that it originated from the pen of a “Mad Arab” named Abdul Alhazred is entirely Lovecraftian, indicated nowhere within the text of the Necronomicon aside from the editor’s commentary and again in regards to the work of H.P. Lovecraft.

This kind of logic is attacked by critics and used to undermine the true ‘between-the-lines’ message the Simon Necronomicon carries in reviving interest in the post-Sumerian “Mardukite” or Babylonian archetypal methodology (or systemology).

The problem arises with identifying the author or even dating manuscripts or versions of the ancient tablets being laid down from presumably the original author’s memory. The bait-and-switch occurs when we again apply the Lovecraftian basis and the logic is mutated to occur as follows:

a) the work of Lovecraft defines the Necronomcon
b) according to Lovecraft the book is written by Abdul Alhazred in the 8th century
c) the Simon work is called the Necronomicon
d) — therefore: the Simon Necronomicon is written by the “Mad Arab” Abdul Alhazred in 8th century Damascus. QED.

…such thinking is obviously flawed.

The main text of the Simon Necronomicon begins with the ‘first part’ of what has been sectioned off as the Testimony of the Mad Arab. The ‘second part’ composes the book’s epilogue. Although ancient Mesopotamia served as the origins
of language, civilization and ultimately ‘religion,’ it had grown or evolved, fragmented with time into something very different by the time of the Necronomicon’s alleged beginnings in 8th century Babylonia. We are meaning 800 years after the birth of Jesus Christ, long after the decline of true ‘paganism’ in the name of some new ideal or another (not always ‘Christian’).

‘Paganism’ as a rural folk tradition is not really even what the original archetypal Anunnaki system is about – being a national religion – but it is certainly a starting place for later ‘country’ beliefs and surviving remnants of ancient wisdom in the wake of later urban Christianization. But, the beautiful harmony of the ‘complete system’ was ever lost to the public for thousands of years until relatively recently in light of the intensive and rigorous work being (and having been) conducted by the Mardukite Chamberlains in their post-modern next generational relay of the Anunnaki legacy in total.

By the time of the 8th century, paganism, witchcraft and the contemporary idea of magick and occultism was not looked ‘highly’ upon by global society, not only as a result of rising Christianity but also in accord with the growth of the new Arabic and Middle Eastern religions that had formed thousands of years after the inception of the Babylonian tradition. The “Old Ways” were shunned regardless of their increased clarity and advanced nature.

As explained in the preface to the second edition of our own Necronomicon Anunnaki Bible, the Schlangekraft Recension was “alluding to a tradition that significantly predated itself. The work was not ‘ahead of its time’, but was instead lagging
‘behind its time’, seeking to preserve, perhaps from the memory of its allegedly Arabic author, the lore and traditions of a dying or dead Mardukite priesthood.”

“The book is not at all like what we would expect to find from a living tradition being operated in Babylon such as theoretically could have been carried by priest-magicians of Marduk and Enki – though they relied solely on catalogues (collections) of hardened clay tablets versus the papyrus and paper (scrolls) more easily conjured to mind concerning magical and religious documents. Instead of this, the Simon Necronomicon are more in line with an antiquated reconstructionist (or revivalist) effort, such as we might find throughout other examples existent in the ‘New Age’ today.” ~ Liber-R, Necronomicon Revelations

According to its author, the Necronomicon is the “Book of the Dead” and also the “Book of Black Earth,” which is a reference to the “Magan” lands (or Arabian Desert) that separates Mesopotamia from Egypt. Further, it is suggested that the knowledge therein is comprised of what was learned while ‘traveling’ on the ‘spheres’ of the Igigi – meaning “Watchers” or “Guardians” (sometimes referred to as “overseers”) that were a subservient class of Anunnaki being. The Igigi were akin to ‘angels’ or ‘messengers’ whereas the Anunnaki proper composed the actual ‘pantheon’ of the ‘gods’.

Up until the current MARDUKITE efforts and work of Joshua Free, few of the publicly visible “New Age” writers and occult spokes-people really had much to say concerning the SIMON NECRONOMICON – many of them wishing it would just go away, or at the very least, that people would stop bothering them about it.

Needless to say, in the post-Lovecraftian world it was, up until the MARDUKITE efforts, the only of the ‘possible versions’ available to the public that was of ‘true’ and ‘authentic’ merit in regards to a historical tradition. Many people criticized the SIMON NECRONOMICON for not being Lovecraftian enough – which was interesting, since the same people also said that the book had been invented by Lovecraft.

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“The debate over the title of the work has never been satisfactorily resolved by or to anyone. The use of the term
by Lovecraft already comes from questionable sources (presumably his own dreams) – and why it should appear on an allegedly 7th-8th century manuscript is also unsettling, even assuming such to even be true. We have no real reason to believe that the Simon work should have held such a title, nor is the book ever referred to as such in its corpus. Therefore, the title itself may have been fabricated.” — explains Joshua Free in “Crossing to the Abyss: Unveiling the Secrets of Simon’s Necronomicon“br />

“It may be the manifestation of a tangible book – wholly obscure for its time – with the title across the front: Necronomicon – is what really launched the success of the book (contents aside). For many, the chances to own and possess such a legendary work was a dream come true. But as with many dreams and wishes, the dreamer does not always know what is for their own higher good. As soon as the Necronomicon was celebrated or coming into being, it was just as quickly renounced for its existence – and not simply by the right-wing and others you would normally expect, but by the same pulp-fiction fans who rejoiced in its arrival!”~ Liber-R, Necronomicon Revelations.

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This current discourse (Liber 555) is an expert commentary on the Simon Necronomicon as it appears – meaning a bastardized tradition emerging from the catacombs of ancient “Mardukite” Babylon. What we do not see evident, as we should expect (and clearly what threw many people off the track) is the lack of Lovecraftian themes in the Simon Necronomicon. Any mention or similarity within the text of the Simon work as compared to the ‘stories’ of H.P. Lovecraft is most likely the ‘creation’ of the modern editors in order to market their Mesopotamian Magic as the Necronomicon.

“For the moment, the current truth seeker will simply have to take the work at face-value. We can concur that the semantic title – Necronomicon – may very well be the creation of an early 20th century writer and that no such book, as he describes it, may exist verbatim. Assuming this, we might be quick to disregard any and all resources that bare this title – something which our own critics are often likely to do – but this is again, folly – and the human spirit should not be so easily ‘led about’ in their understanding based on the ‘languages’ and ‘title semantics’ adopted.”

In these types of post-Christian era accounts, such as we see with the Medieval and Dark Age era grimoires of the period, the magick and traditions are reflective to a ‘polarity’ that does not actually exist. For example, the entire idea behind ‘devil worship’ and ‘satanism’ is entirely dependent on the existence of these beings as they are generally understood – something which only came about as a result of the Judeo-Christian level of consciousness that came to occupy the masses. Prior to this ‘introduction’ of the ‘devil’ by Christian standards it would have been completely impossible to have proper ‘devil worship’ or satanism. The entire mythology that people are most likely to know regarding these matters is Hebrew and Christian in origin, making suggestion toward an understanding of the world based on a moral or ethical dualism that is not at all present in the traditions and writings of the more antiquated ancient world.

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